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You and your team match our criteria and want to join this year’s edition of the UNLOCK Accelerator? Amazing! We look forward to receiving your application below!

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Before getting started, be sure to consult our program page and frequently asked questions. We select primarily based on your project idea as well as your team setup, so be sure to have all information at hand. But don’t worry, you don’t have to complete the form in one go. You can save your application at any time, have a coffee, and come back to it later.

Application is open until May 29^th, 2022.

Note: We only require one application per team. Please select one person as the main applicant and enter the information of the other team members in the respective fields.

More detailed information on the application process can be found here.

Full name of the main applicant / team member 1 *

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Last

Email address *

Country of residence *

Number of further team members (not including the main applicant) *

Team member 2 (full name & country of residence) *

Title of your project *

Describe your idea in one sentence *

YOUR IDEA

What problem or challenge do you want to solve and why do you want to address it? *

How does your idea address the problem? *

Who is the target group of your idea and why are you sure that your idea is needed by the target group? *

Do similar ideas already exist and what makes your project different / stand out? *

How far along are you with the idea? What is the current project status? *

What are your biggest challenges right now? Where do you need specific support from the accelerator? *

Your project’s web address, if available

YOUR TEAM

Tell us about your team. (What expertise do you bring to the team? Have you worked on a similar project before? Which roles and responsibilities does each team member have with regards to your project idea? Feel free to also include links to professional profiles.) *

What makes you the ideal team to work together on this idea? *

If necessary, we will support your idea in the form of a scholarship of up to €1,000 per team member. The scholarships are intended to cover your living expenses if you intend to work on your project full-time. Please consult our FAQ for eligibility criteria. Do individual team members need financial support to participate in the program? Please state their names below. (The answer to the question has no influence on the evaluation of your application submission). *

Participation in the UNLOCK Accelerator program requires attendance at all events and equal commitment from all participating team members. Can you guarantee that all members of your team will take part in all of these events if accepted? *

WE'RE CURIOUS

How did you hear about the UNLOCK Accelerator? *

Have you previously attended any accelerators, incubators or similar programs? *

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Data protection agreement

For the participation in the UNLOCK Accelerator program and in accordance with my wish to present my proposed ideas to a broad public, in particular via wikimedia.de and social media channels, and to contact me if necessary in case of queries, my data will be processed by Wikimedia for three years (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR) and then deleted. I can obtain more information on data protection at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. and on my rights at: https://www.wikimedia.de/datenschutz.

Data processing agreement *

I would like to be contacted by Wikimedia within the framework of the UNLOCK Accelerator program even after my application and agree to the thereto related data processing until revoked. Withdrawal of consent is possible at any time with future effect, e.g. by email to datenschutz@wikimedia.de. I can obtain more information on data protection at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. and on my rights at: https://www.wikimedia.de/datenschutz/.

Age confirmation *

I hereby confirm that all team members and myself are over 18 years of age.

Free Licensing *

My team members and I agree to make our project results publicly available on wikimedia.de under a free license in the meaning of Open Source Licenses (https://opensource.org/licenses) and the Open Definition (http://opendefinition.org/licenses/). This allows the project results to be freely shared on the web and for others to build upon them. We recommend: The licenses GPL2, GPL3, MIT or Apache for source code, for all other content like text, images, graphics, videos, music either CC BY 4.0 international or CC BY-SA 4.0 international.

Evaluation agreement *

Wikimedia Deutschland works impact-oriented and wants to constantly improve their programs. Participants therefore commit to taking part in evaluations accompanying the program, such as feedback discussions, standardised surveys before and after participation in the program and structured reviews.

Please check all entries before hitting the “send” button, submission is final. Please make sure that your email address is correct, so we can get in touch with you. You will also receive a confirmation email on this address.

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